The Roman goddesses Latona, Niobe, Phoebe, Aglaia (the youngest of the three Graces) and Hileaera, the latter two playing a game of astragali or knucklebones. Painting on marble by Alexander the Athenian discovered in Resina in May 1786. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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